This body of work is about light and movement. By making use of light and movement, I am honoring and moving through its opposite: shadow and pain. In order to see myself in this fog of darkness, I created this series depicting the process of moving out from a darkness. I depict water in motion as a form of connection. In that motion I find growth, a way to keep myself moving, a way to process and regenerate from suffering.

The dark layers come first in my process; I make the light out of and on top of the darkness to speak toward a brighter horizon. Here I’m casting light to my people; the light of hope, happiness, and a bright future for the land. The light is a premonition: before something happens, you feel its emergence.